Scientists Discover What Makes Hydrogen Go Quantum
A hidden structural switch inside vanadium determines whether hydrogen behaves like a particle or a quantum wave. The…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
Fermiology-driven goniopolar transverse thermoelectricity in kagome metals
Yin, J.-X., Lian, B. & Hasan, M. Z. Topological kagome magnets and superconductors. Nature 612, 647–657 (2022). Article …
The Hiroshima Bomb Created a Strange Alloy Never Seen on Earth From Vaporized Buildings and Metal
Incident-light image of the hiroshimaite sample containing iron-chromium alloys, left, and its polished surface under reflected light, right.…
Quantum Heat Waves Spotted at Room Temperature for the First Time
Visualization of ray-like heat flow in boron arsenide at 300 K (80°F). Credit: H-Lab/UCLA The discovery could improve…
Scientists Discover Two Competing Memories in Matter
Device used to stir and rock samples of a suspension of small particles in viscous liquid. New research…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
Scientists Bought Centuries-Old Musket Balls on eBay and Turned Them into Cutting-Edge Solar Panels
Perovskite solar cell. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering…
A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material
A cross-section of a bristle worm jaw sample with the indentation testing sites labeled 1 to 11. Credit:…
Scientists Finally Solve a 50-Year Mystery Hidden in Solid Nitrogen
Researchers have resolved a decades-old question about the structure of γ-N2 by combining diffraction, spectroscopy, and computer modeling.…
Multimodal scanning-probe quantum sensing of quantum materials
Degen, C. L., Reinhard, F. & Cappellaro, P. Quantum sensing. Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 035002 (2017). Article Google…
A Nobel Winning Chemist Is Trying to Pull Drinking Water from Desert Air
Omar Yaghi at the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 29/06/2026, Lindau, Germany Omar Yaghi has spent much of…